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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Alison Bechdel
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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
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Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
Alison Bechdel
I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.
Alison Bechdel
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
Alison Bechdel
What would happen if we spoke the truth?
Alison Bechdel
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
Alison Bechdel
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
Alison Bechdel
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
Alison Bechdel
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
Alison Bechdel
Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
Alison Bechdel
I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
Alison Bechdel
I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
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The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.
Alison Bechdel
She has given me a way out.
Alison Bechdel
Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
Alison Bechdel
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
Alison Bechdel
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.
Alison Bechdel
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Alison Bechdel
Self-published media are really critical. It's so heartwarming that people are still doing it in this digital age. It's just really moving and exciting. You can't really replace a beautiful little mini-comic. It doesn't translate to the computer, you know? Handmade stuff has really given me hope for humanity.
Alison Bechdel
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
Alison Bechdel
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy
Alison Bechdel